Discourse on the Method, part 3, ¶ 2-1 (ChatGPT)

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The first principle I decided to follow was to obey the laws and customs of my country and to remain steadfast in the faith I was raised in by God’s grace. In everything else, I chose to guide my actions by the most moderate and widely accepted opinions of the wisest people around me, avoiding any extreme views.

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The first was to obey the laws and customs of my country, adhering firmly to the Faith in which, by the grace of God, I had been educated from my childhood, and regulating my conduct in every other matter according to the most moderate opinions, and the farthest removed from extremes, which should happen to be adopted in practice with general consent of the most judicious of those among whom I might be living.